#TwitterPurge: The world reacts as Twitter deletes 70 million accounts and users loose thousands of followers

There's a Twitter Purger going on at the moment as the social network site begins the process of deleting over 70 million (fake, dormant, Inactive, spam, bots) accounts as announced by its CEO, Jack Dorsey.

Jack who has also lost 200,000 followers to the purge earlier announced that, 'this week we’ll be removing locked Twitter accounts (locked when we detect suspicious changes in behavior) from follower counts across profiles globally. The number of followers displayed on many profiles may go down'.

You should be confident that the follower numbers presented across Twitter are meaningful and accurate. We’re introducing a change to follower counts as part of our work to make Twitter a more trusted service for public conversation. https://t.co/A2ZEGHjOZ8

— Vijaya Gadde (@vijaya) July 11, 2018

Awww, I heard that there was a Twitter bot purge and thought "wow I must be sub 100 for follower now". I lost 2. That mean you all are (most likely) humans. pic.twitter.com/E57ZCFFfeE

— Loeken1 W.D.D.B. (@Loeken1_) July 12, 2018

When you've lost less than 10 followers so far in the Great Twitter Purge pic.twitter.com/1g8Kkq9flt

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 12, 2018

Thank God I didn’t lose all a bunch of twitter followers. Still sitting here at a strong 390 😬 #TwitterPurge pic.twitter.com/E1Ty8Oqp3M

— Michael Anderson (@michandersontv) July 12, 2018

The big-name Twitter accounts who lost the most followers in fake account purge

Followers lost@twitter - 7.5 million!!@KatyPerry - 1.5 million@BarackObama - 2.1 million@taylorswift13 - 2.3 million@YouTube - 2 million@realDonaldTrump - 100,000 https://t.co/9z7tv23Ouf pic.twitter.com/9wMN0ZfoHE

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) July 12, 2018

Twitter completed its fake account purge today. One person who reportedly bought fake followers was Ray Lewis, who lost about half his followers pic.twitter.com/z8BNzECthv

— Austin Vitelli (@AustinVitelli) July 12, 2018

...And just like that, 10K followers vanish. I assume this is another @Jack purge? https://t.co/zbRRaHQ0Me

— Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) July 12, 2018